On Sat,27.Feb.10, 20:16:01, Cecil Knutson wrote: > Stephen, > >I was going to suggest trying a different sound card on your existing > >system. But it's your call. > > That is a good idea. I'll look to see what I have. Am I right to > assume that the installation will have to be repeated in order to > get the sound card recognized and configured? Definitely not! But to keep things simple just remove the other card, plug in the new one and (with a little bit of luck) it should just work. [...] > The multiple partitions of Debian is one of the features that first > attracted me to the OS. Oh! and multiple partitions makes disk > maintenance so much easier. It makes planning more complicated, not something I would recommend to beginners. But keeping /home on a separate partition is (almost) always a good idea. [...] > But each installation failed to give a suitable screen to the X > server, even though I gave the same H-Freq, V-Freq, resolution, > monitor data, etc. And I tried several edits of the X-server > configuration file, even copying from the config file that is > created by the X-server test command. This shouldn't be necessary anymore unless you have a really old monitor. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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